Senator Barack Obama appeared on Letterman last night, plugging his presidential bid, showing off his polished but likeable demeanor, and, most importantly, demonstrating a pretty decent knack for comedic timing — a must-have trai for whoever’s going to inherit this comically fucked up little nation of ours. What’s great about Obama is that his comedy — unlike the current Goober-in-Chief’s — is for the most part intentional. (A nice example is the highlight above, where Obama addresses Dave’s dream of an Obama-Clinton power ticket). But Obama’s funniest line was indeed an accident. As he rattled off the names of Democratic hopefuls, he slipped in the name of Dennis Kucinich, Cleveland’s own congressman and future star of The Surreal Life 10. Letterman chimed in. “You’re kidding about Kucinich, aren’t you?” the host deadpanned. Obama smiled and said something to the affect of, “Dennis spices things up,” which is true, in the same way that a drunk homeless guy wandering into your birthday party and peeing in the beer cooler spices things up: it’s amusing the first time, but after that you just wish the homeless guy would pee on someone else’s Miller Lite. The above highlight is the only video I could track down so far, but I’m sure the full interview will be on YouTube in no time. — Joe P. Tone
This article appears in Apr 4-10, 2007.
I’m an intelligent, well informed, college educated, successful business owner and I’m sick and tired of the name calling regarding Dennis Kucinich. He is the only candidate in my opinion, that has a well thought out, logical, platform that covers the issues that will matter most to average Americans. When you call Dennis Names, I take it as a personal insult directed at me, since I support him 100%. Your cheap shot name calling is no longer going to fool the American Public. The Truth always wins over lies. I have no respect for name callers like you and David Letterman. If David Letterman thinks that Dennis Kucinich is such a Losser, why doesn’t he or his network invite Dennis to come onto his show and make fun of him face to Face? The reason is Dennis would wipe the floor with him and more Americans would learn what a great Man he is. Why is it that the talk shows that make fun of Dennis Kucinich the most never seem to have Dennis on them. If Dennis is such a joke why not have him on the show? I can tell you first hand that Dennis Kucinich would love the opportunity to defend himself face to face on David Lettermen’s Show or any other. Please don’t be fooled by people like Joe P. Tone who calls Dennis names because they don’t agree with his ideas. If you don’t agree with Dennis on the Issues Joe, why don’t you address them in your blog and let the readers decide? Please Go to Kucinich.us and Decide for yourself.
Sincerely,
Robert Ruszkowski